On Voice of America

WaPo reported in Dec 2016 that GOP slipped an amendment into the annual Natl Defense Auth Act that describes precisely what Trump just did with VoA

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/a-big-change-to-us-broadcasting-is-coming--and-its-one-putin-might-admire/2016/12/09/6c6d5786-bcb7-11e6-91ee-1adddfe36cbe_story.html
Also worth noting that a Putin hates VOA. He ended their broadcasts in 2014 in Russia.
In Dec 2017, Putin slapped restrictions on VOA & Radio Free Europe
The Kremlin has always hated Radio Liberty and VOA. Their independent reporting threatened the RIS propaganda machine.

This is circa 1960s:
The first thing Pootskin did in 2000?
Take over NTv —an independent Russian channel with ~2million viewers—both Russian and international. He has the founder chased by the FSB & arrested 3x and puts NTV under govt control. Gazprom took it over in 2001.

https://medium.com/@ZarinaZabrisky/imitation-games-f9fee3c50aa8
The first thing Pootskin did in 2000?Take over NTv —an independent Russian channel with ~2million viewers—both Russian and international. He has the founder chased by the FSB & arrested 3x and puts NTV under govt control. Gazprom took it over in 2001. https://medium.com/@ZarinaZabrisky/imitation-games-f9fee3c50aa8
The first thing Pootskin did in 2000?Take over NTv —an independent Russian channel with ~2million viewers—both Russian and international. He has the founder chased by the FSB & arrested 3x and puts NTV under govt control. Gazprom took it over in 2001. https://medium.com/@ZarinaZabrisky/imitation-games-f9fee3c50aa8
The first thing Pootskin did in 2000?Take over NTv —an independent Russian channel with ~2million viewers—both Russian and international. He has the founder chased by the FSB & arrested 3x and puts NTV under govt control. Gazprom took it over in 2001. https://medium.com/@ZarinaZabrisky/imitation-games-f9fee3c50aa8
The first thing Pootskin did in 2000?Take over NTv —an independent Russian channel with ~2million viewers—both Russian and international. He has the founder chased by the FSB & arrested 3x and puts NTV under govt control. Gazprom took it over in 2001. https://medium.com/@ZarinaZabrisky/imitation-games-f9fee3c50aa8
The first thing Pootskin did in 2000?Take over NTv —an independent Russian channel with ~2million viewers—both Russian and international. He has the founder chased by the FSB & arrested 3x and puts NTV under govt control. Gazprom took it over in 2001. https://medium.com/@ZarinaZabrisky/imitation-games-f9fee3c50aa8
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